Here’s a cute little video to start the week off with.
As a bonus here’s the full song by Toby Mac and Leigh Nash
“Surf’s up!”
It Girl and the Atomics #3
Image Comics (October, 2012)
“Dark Streets, Snap City” part 3 “Machine Dreams” WRITER: Jamie S. Rick ARTIST: Mike Norton COLORIST: Allen Passalaqua LETTERS: Crank SERIES CREATOR: Michael Allred COVER ART: Michael & Laura Allred EDITORS: Jamie S. Rich & Eric StephensonTell others about the Spotlight:
It’ll happen someday.
I actually had a different idea for panel 3, but for some reason I drew panel 1 like that and didn’t want to redraw it.
This is going to be a harder Christmas for some in Newtown, CT, and harder Christmases forever because of the shooting at Sandy Hill Elementary School. This is my home state and while not a town I’ve even visited I know it’s not a place you expect this sort of thing to happen. But then where would be? At any rate, please keep Newtown, and the families of those whose loved ones died, in your prayers tonight.
- Reviewers Unknown: I did say that I wasn’t doing Clutter Reports for a few weeks, but I did take time to write an original article for RU that you haven’t seen here at the Spotlight. While you guys know my love of Christmas music, all I’ve posted are issues with certain songs over at RU because I can’t post random stuff there like I can here. So I worked out an article of five favorite Christmas songs, as well as introducing my new “BW Yule Log” playlist on YouTube.
- Speaking of RU, anyone remember an Internet Spotlight I did for a comic strip review show called The Punchline? Well, another of my colleagues found the show and convinced Ozzie to add him to our party. So now the Comic Strip Critic is on Reviewers Unknown. We might end up teaming up in the future. You never know, although I don’t make that many videos.
Best Scene of This Week’s Reviews
New Crusaders #4
Now that’s character growth!
I have to get the Christmas Eve video review and Christmas day comic up, so expect a week of Christmas videos plus the daily comic review this week. I need to get to work.
Related articles
- Jake & Leon #138: Fizzbin Learns About Christmas V2 #1
- Jake & Leon #139: Fizzbin Learns About Christmas V2 #2
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“I think your dog is still following us.”
Worlds’ Finest #7
DC Comics (February, 2013)
“Family Matters” part 2 WRITER: Paul Levitz LETTERER: Dezi Sienty EDITOR: Wil Moss “Huntress” Sequence/Cover Art ARTIST: Kevin Maguire COLORIST: Rosemary Cheetham “Power Girl” Sequence PENCILER: George Pérez INKER: Sandra Hope COLORS: Hi-FiTell others about the Spotlight:
I’m sure by now at least most of you has heard of yet another school shooting, this time in my home state of Connecticut. As I sit down to write this at about 4:18PM ET there are still so many questions, mostly why this guy did what he did. Naturally, the usual secondary suspects (guns, video games, other media) are being blamed.
Part of what got me into comics was the fact that in comics the good guys always won and lives were saved, or at least more than in today’s stories barring some kind of invasion tale. The shooter may not have been a terrorist as we usually define it, but he might as well be with the devastation he has wrought in people lives, and almost a week before Christmas. In a better world kids wouldn’t be dead. In a better world, the bad guys would lose, and even the kids can be the heroes who took them down.
“Double M” round 10
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Ghosts of GOOD Transformers comics.
Transformers: Regeneration One #86
IDW Publishing (December, 2012)
“Natural Selection” part 1 WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: Andrew Wildman INKER: Stephen Baskerville COLORIST: John-Paul Bove LETTERER: Chris Mowry EDITOR: John BarberTell others about the Spotlight:
Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were a reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
So last time we got away from Quaid’s pants. Now it’s time to get into his mind. Which may be as scary as it sounds. The players are all together save one. Last time our hero decided a fake trip to Mars might help curb his urging to go there. This and I think the next chapter are where things get funky.
